Civilization: Beyond Earth

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
Developer(s)Firaxis Games
Publisher(s)2K Games[note 1]
Producer(s)Lena Brenk
Designer(s)
  • Will Miller
  • David McDonough
Programmer(s)Don Wuenschell
Artist(s)Michael R. Bates
Writer(s)
  • Rex Martin
  • Peter Murray
  • Walt Williams
  • Scott Wittbecker
Composer(s)
SeriesCivilization
Enginecf. LORE
Platform(s)
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
  • October 24, 2014[1]
  • Mac
  • November 26, 2014[2]
  • Linux
  • December 18, 2014[3]
Genre(s)
Mode(s)

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy, 4X video game in the Civilization series developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games and released for Microsoft Windows on October 24, 2014,[4] the Mac App Store on November 27, 2014 and for Linux on December 18, 2014. The game's premise is that Earth became uninhabitable due to an undescribed disaster known as "the Great Mistake", forcing humanity to colonize space.[5] As a spiritual successor to the 1999 game Alpha Centauri, Beyond Earth shares much of its development team and some concepts, most notably its setting on an exoplanet in the future.[6][7]

An expansion pack, titled Rising Tide, was released on October 9, 2015.

  1. ^ Fingas, Jon (July 4, 2014). "Civilization: Beyond Earth ships October 24th with maps based on real planets". Engadget. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  2. ^ "Civilization: Beyond Earth Mac and Linux Dev Update #5". GameAgent. November 25, 2014. Archived from the original on November 28, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  3. ^ Russ Looney (December 16, 2014). "Civilization: Beyond Earth Mac and Linux Dev Update #8". GameAgent. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  4. ^ "Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth". Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
  5. ^ Tach, Dave (April 12, 2014). "Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth will take humanity to space this fall". Polygon. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  6. ^ Orland, Kyle (April 12, 2014). "Firaxis takes Civilization to the stars with Beyond Earth announcement". ArsTechnica. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  7. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (April 12, 2014). "Firaxis announces Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth". Eurogamer. Retrieved April 12, 2014.


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